What Feminism Is, Differentiate Me From a Doormat, Rebecca West

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_105140.

Leave Footprints, Walking on Tiptoe, Leymah Gbowee

“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” - Leymah Gbowee

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 20.

First Problem, Unlearn, Gloria Steinem

“The first problem for all of us, men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 64.

Developed Language, Need to Complain, Jane Wagner

“I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.” - Jane Wagner

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 71.

Mental Attitude, Creates Results, Wally Amos

“It's your mental attitude that creates results in your life.” - Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Corp., and a new company, Uncle Noname, in Parade Magazine, May 22, 1994

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 5.

Trouble Is, Don't Risk Anything, Risk Even More, Erica Jong

“And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.” - Erica Jong

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 13.

Future, Beauty of Their Dreams, Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 307.

Food Stamp Recipients, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Barack Obama

"Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam733938.html

Worry, Should Do, Gloria Steinem

“Don't worry about what you should do, just do whatever you can.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 63

Solely Responsible, Our Choices, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and though throughout our lifetime.” - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 60.

Women, Equal Part of the Past, History, Gloria Steinem

“Women have always been an equal part of the past, just not an equal part of history.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 103.

Life, Too Short, Charlotte Bronte

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.” - Charlotte Bronte

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 37.

People in Any Art, Good, Lucky, Katharine Hepburn

“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good – or there because they are lucky.” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 5.

Nobility, Virtue, Jane Porter

“Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.” - Jane Porter

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 55.

Politics, Changing, Gloria Steinem

“Saying politics is dirty is just a way of keeping us from changing the politics of our own lives.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 24.

No Man, Good Enough, Govern Any Woman, Susan B. Anthony

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent." - Susan B. Anthony

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/susan_b_anthony_399720.

Blind with Patriotism, Wrong is Wrong, Malcolm X

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_390503.

Advice, Know the Answer, Wish We Didn't, Erica Jong

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.” - Erica Jong

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 60.

More Power, Listen, Less Power, Talk, Instant Democracy, Gloria Steinem

“If you have more power than others, remember to listen as much as you talk. If you have less power than others, remember to talk as much as you listen. This is instant democracy.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 27.

Organize, Agitate, Educate, Susan B. Anthony

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry." - Susan B. Anthony

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/susan_b_anthony_401742.

In Germany, Speak Up, Protestant, Communists, Jews, Catholics, Martin Niemoller

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." - Martin Niemoller, 1945 (WW1 war hero & U Boat Captain, WW2 pastor who spent 7 years in Nazi prisons).

This is one variant of the quote by Martin Niemoller. Variations include trade unionists, social democrats, and others. We are now witnessing a regression of rights for women. What group is next?

You can view this and some of the variants at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller, or Google Martin Niemoller for more links.

Women's Work, Never Done, Underpaid, Unpaid, Boring, Reptitious, What We Look Like, Joyce Stevens, The Torch

"Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement." - Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987

I first read these words on a poster at Brigit Books in St. Petersburg, Florida. Brigit Books has long since closed (darn!). But I was able to find out that Joyce Stevens wrote the above quote as a Union Song for Women's Liberation Broadsheet, International Woman's Day, 1975.

Numerous links had this listed as "Author unknown, quoted in The Torch." While I was able to find links to several magazines and newsletters listed as The Torch, none of them were ones that had listed this quote. However, we now know who wrote these words.

Defense, Protecting Women and Children, What They Think, Pat Schroeder

“When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.” - Pat Schroeder

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 103.

Cautious, Careful People, Never Effect a Reform, Susan B. Anthony

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations...can never effect a reform.” - Susan B. Anthony

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 11.

One Person, Difference, Liz Carpenter

“I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.” - Liz Carpenter

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 45.

One Thing to Gain, Whole Humanity, Gloria Steinem

“Each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: our whole humanity.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 27.

Attempts the Absurd, Achieve the Impossible, Robin Morgan

"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible." - Robin Morgan

Found on AZ Quotes at https://www.azquotes.com/quote/528855.

Prolonged Slavery of Woman, Darkest Page, Susan B. Anthony

"The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history." - Susan B. Anthony, introduction, History of Woman Suffrage

Found on Notable Quotes at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Keep Fightin', Freedom, Justice, Have Fun, Molly Ivins

“So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.” - Molly Ivins

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 34.

Truth, Justice, Malcolm X

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_385966.

Real Courage, Gun, You Begin Anyway, Atticus Finch, Harper Lee

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - (Atticus Finch) ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Found on Goodreads, at https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3275794-to-kill-a-mockingbird.